Month: May 2013
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How to rewind a tape drive in Ubuntu
This again uses the mt command, and is nice and easy: sudo mt -f [path/to/tape/drive] rewind A common example would be: sudo mt -f /dev/st0 rewind Easy done! In the above example it’s st (zero) not st (letter o) – in case it’s not clear from the font.
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Changing or Updating the time zone in Ubuntu Server
There are quite a few reasons you may find that you need to change your time zone – for example, if you’re using a pre-made image for a virtual machine you may find that the default timezone is not set to your country. You can change the time manually, though there is a quick…
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Installing Xen on Ubuntu: Error “makeinfo is missing on your system”
This is another error that seems to crop up when making Xen on Ubuntu – you can fix it by installing the texinfo package: sudo apt-get install texinfo The error message should now no longer appear.
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Installing Xen on Ubuntu: Error bits/predefs.h: No such file or directory
This error cropped up when we were building Xen on a system running Ubuntu 12.04 Server: /usr/include/features.h:324:26: fatal error: bits/predefs.h: No such file or directory To get past this point, install gcc-multilib. sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib The required files are around 20MB and should allow you to get past that…